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Ruining great games for yourself?

[ariakas]

So, I have this friend. He's a fairly accomplished gamer in some genres, and his general gaming experience is such that he can manage normal mode even in genres he doesn't regularly play.

However, he thinks of himself (or wants others to think?) that he is an exceptional, awesome gamer with mad skillz. So sometimes, when we have a get-together at his place, and other people are off tabletop gaming or playing something on their laptops or just chatting over coffee, he'll pop a game into his system and put it on the hardest difficulty setting.

He'll blow through the tutorial and tutorial missions with ease, exclaiming about how sadly easy this game is, how beneath his skills. Then he'll get to the first real section of the game, fail repeatedly, pretend to be "bored" of it (it has a bad story! terrible mechanics!) and turn it off. He'll never go back to it, either, on say a more reasonable difficulty - because he's bored, goddamnit! He didn't quit because it was too hard, the game just sucked!

The sad thing is, ruined multiple games for himself that are absolute classics (the original Dead Space, CoD4, Metro 2033) by doing this. As much schadenfreude as I get from watching him bite off more than he can chew, I do wish he'd give those another shot, or at the very least not get "bored" of games that we'd potentially have in common.

Can anyone think of what to say to him that might get him to turn the difficulty down to the point that he might actually enjoy the game? "That... might be too hard for you" has just resulted in "NUH UH JUST YOU WATCH" (this guy is 30 goddamned years old, too) so I just don't know what the fuck to do.

Re: Ruining great games for yourself?

[(Anonymous)]

i doubt there is much you can do, sorry, given his pride. anything you tell him will be taken as an attack on his person with that mindset and only make him dig in his heels even harder

good news is that if he ever learns humility he might go back and play them someday again

Re: Ruining great games for yourself?

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, agree. I doubt there's anything that can be said. if he has some self-awareness of his actual abilities, you might encourage him to play by himself/without an audience and see if that goes somewhere. if not, I'd just throw my hands up and walk away.

Re: Ruining great games for yourself?

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds he is a bit of a waste of space.

I will always be amazed by how many women choose to keel males like this in their lives.

Re: Ruining great games for yourself?

[ariakas]

lol

If I keeled him, maybe that really would knock some sense into him.

Re: Ruining great games for yourself?

[(Anonymous)]

I suspect all you can really do is have a good laugh at his expense.

Re: Ruining great games for yourself?

[ariakas]

I do, and heartily, but he's also my buddy and some of the games he's "bored" of have great co-op, so... sigh.